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The first case is presented of an exophytic chiasmatic-hypothalamic glioma causing progressive hemidystonia in an 8-year-old boy, and all 24 reported cases of intra-axial cerebral tumours resulting in symptomatic hemidystonia are reviewed.
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Received: 7 October 1996
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Vandertop, W., Kamphuis, D. & Witkamp, T. Hemidystonia as presenting symptom of an optic glioma. Child's Nerv Syst 13, 289–292 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003810050087
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003810050087